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Decades ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film business.

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Kodak's downfall over the last several decades was dramatic

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Why couldn't Britain compete with some of its neighbouring countries in terms of food in the post-war decades?

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"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

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A message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1500 miles away and has been returned to his daughter.

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Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications."How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in," he said."If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and mor

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Decades of research have shown that in order to acquire skills and real knowledge in school, kids need to want to learn.

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Decades of working over coal fires in tight, closed spaces with little fresh airto ensure his dishes would not get col had fatally damaged his lungs.

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Employed young men are much less likely to live at home than young men without a job, and employment among young men has fallen significantly in recent decades.

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Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue.

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For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

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I mean, it's been two decades, but I can still remember when I got my first real salary.

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If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.

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Indoor pollution, which includes sources like home heating and cooking, has remained constant over the past several decades despite advances in the area.

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Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two decades, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones.

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Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national governments have failed to do anything about the crowds for decades, because they're only interested in tourism.

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Over the past three decades, the industry has made some efforts to improve the quality of its offerings.

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So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago.

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Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.

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The average age of first marriage has risen steadily for decades.

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The Dutch king has revealed that for more than two decades he has held down a part-time second job alongside his royal duties.

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The food-as-medicine movement has been around for decades, but it's making progress as physicians and medical institutions make food a formal part of treatment, rather than relying solely on medications.

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The survey finds that, in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world—just as middle-aged and older women do.

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Then decades passed without my touching a knitting needle.

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Each group over the coming decades will need to address different issues surrounding food production, storage and transportation, as well as consumer expectations, if we are to continue to feed all our people.

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About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades

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Apple stands to win as well, hooking more young consumers with decades of technology purchases ahead of them.

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It has been running for several decades.

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But while much of the research and innovation has concentrated on finding less-polluting energy alternatives, it may be decades before clean technologies like wind and solar meet a significant portion of our energy needs

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Just a few decades ago, Asia's two giants were stagnating(停滞不前) under faulty economic ideologies.

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Why is it even interested in all those out-of-printlibrary books, most of which have been gathering dust on forgotten shelves for decades?

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That is not surprising: politicians with an eye on the next election will hardly rush to introduce unpopular measures that may not bear fruit for years, perhaps decades.

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That may be because they have had plenty of younger ones to choose from, partly thanks to the post-war baby-boom and partly because over the past few decades many more women have entered the labour force, increasing employers' choice

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But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.

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In the decades to 2050, America will find itself playing an ever-increasing role in the developed world's defence effort

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So we have a great amount of time for leisure than in decades past.

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And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

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As an organization of volunteers, AMSAT was putting "amateur" satellites in orbit decades before the current Cube Sat craze.

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B2B commerce, for example, didn't move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn't mean it won't do so over the next few decades.

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Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

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But advances in technology might make Antarctica a lot more accessible three decades from now.

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But over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.

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For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

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For decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing.

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For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.

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In a few decades, artificial intelligence (AI) will surpass many of the abilities that we believe make us special.

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In part, the authors wrote in HBR, this pattern may have to do with the way work itself has changed over the past several decades.

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In the 1960s, the United States devoted nearly 17% of discretionary spending to research and development, reaping decades of economic growth.

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In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

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It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

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It reflected the fact that these decades saw a climb in general standards of living and avoidance of mass societal traumas like foil-scale war or economic deprivation.

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More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining

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nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advances and rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week.

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Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.

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Researchers have been studying this group of children for decades now.

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Terrie Moffitt's paper on "The link Between Childhood Self-control and Adult Status Decades Later" is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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The data on nutrition and childhood development has been slowly coming together for decades.

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The knowledge she collected over decades didn't just satisfy those curious about nature, but also provided valuable insights into medicine and science.

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The results of her decades worth of careful observations were detailed paintings and descriptions of European insects, followed by unconventional visuals and stories of insects and animals from a land that most at the time could only imagine.

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The study found that strong teachers in the fourth through eighth grades raised the skills of their students in ways that would last for decades.

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The study was conducted over a period of decades.

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They were surveyed about their diets during high school, and their eating habits were tracked for two decades.

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This is more than twice the level of two decades ago.

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Traffic has become synonymous with air pollution, and many countries intend to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the next two decades.

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What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become "prosumers," who produce and consume their own energy on-site?

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According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

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But the textile boom lasted only several decades.

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Dashan, who has been learning crosstalk, the Chinese comedic tradition, for decades, wants to mix it up.

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Floods have become more damaging in bangladesh in recent decades.

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In the past two decades, however, continued connection with and dependence on family,thanks to cellphones,email and social media, have increased significantly.

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The resistance to vaccine has continued for decades, and it is driven by a real but very small risk.

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There are probably decades in which to plan for the arrival of super intelligent machines.

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Whatever colour changes the ocean experiences in the coming decades will probably be too gradual and unnoticeable, but they could mean significant changes.

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While clean energy is increasingly used in our daily life, global warning will continue for some decades after CO2 emissions peak.

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A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal.

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After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top position—no matter how much "soft pressure" is put upon them.

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After several decades, the same data were subjected to econometric analysis.

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But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can't be knocked off.

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But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them.

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Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that's tighter than it's been in decades.

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Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

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Indeed, predictions of such a society have been around for two decades but have not yet come to fruition.

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The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.

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The commission ignores that for several decades America's colleges and universities have produced graduates who don't know the content and character of liberal education and are thus deprived of its benefits.

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Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely -- though by no means uniformly-glowingly positive.

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When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.

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without question, manufacturing has taken a significant hit during recent decades, and further trade deals raise questions about whether new shocks could hit manufacturing.

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